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The Peripheralisation of Africa in Global Politics

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Sub-Saharan Africa faces rather a bleak future of growing international indifference and neglect in the wake of the collapse of Cold War ideological divisions in global politics. The Cold War division of the international system into a bipolar model of conflict ensured that the newly-emerging African states in the period after 1945 could exert a considerable degree of political leverage on the rival Western and Communist blocs. Post-colonial states in Africa were provided with a high degree of external political, economic and ideological support, which tended to some degree to disguise or distort the more general process of economic and political marginalisation of the continent from the rest of the global economy.

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  1. African Studies Group, Nottingham Trent University, UK

    Bakut tswah Bakut (Lecturer in International Relations and Director) (Lecturer in International Relations and Director)

  2. Nottingham Trent University, UK

    Sagarika Dutt (Lecturer in International Relations) (Lecturer in International Relations)

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Rich, P. (2000). The Peripheralisation of Africa in Global Politics. In: Bakut, B.t., Dutt, S. (eds) Africa at the Millenium. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-333-97727-9_2

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